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[BrokeLinuxPhile]

6 hours ago, One and a half said:

Agreed, the wanker in the you tube is poo-poohing the price for a Nagra portable battery pack, and can make something cheaper by brainless and and being totally ignorant of commercial reality. Miska explains in that thread realities of costs, and there's the liability thrown in as well. Even to setup a cable creation line on its own doesn't leave much change of $500k ++, let alone the setup costs for the tooling, which is $200k+.

 

What, may i ask, do you expect to gain by referring to people as brainless?  I hope you were not referring to myself, because all i was having was having an adult discussion about a post someone made.  I've worked professionally as an engineer since the 90's so I assure you I am not brainless.

 

In the thread you mentioned, Miska mentioned personal experiences designing a product, as did I.  Neither person was wrong, each were our own PERSONAL experiences, and not in any way fabricated by anyone.  Have you ever even been on an engineering design team professionally?  Don't pass judgement on those of us who have gone through the process countless times.

 

It's when people start yelling BS...or start calling each other trolls, or braindead....that these discussions get out of hand.  How about "I believe you are incorrect and here's why..."   Stop attacking people and attack statements instead and all this nonsense disappears.

 

You have to have devil's advocates to keep the con jobs in check.  Just because we point out flaws in arguments made or products sold does not mean we are attacking or insulting any person in any way.

[BrokeLinuxPhile]

Larry Ho comes immediately to mind as being smart but clueless at business. 

 

There's also plenty of dumbass fortune 500 CEO's out there.  Years back we had to politely prove wrong a CEO at a major tier 1 US telecom.  He demanded we remove the UDP protocol entirely from our platform, one of his managers told him the "U" stood for "unreliable".  Took us a full week of audio bridges to get him to change his mind.

[BrokeLinuxPhile]

4 minutes ago, mansr said:

He comes to mind, foremost, as a fraudster.

 

Very true.  I wasn't directly involved in any of that, so my opinion isn't as strong.

 

People like him make free expression about products/companies all that more important IMO.  Creating safe zones where people can't dissect products/companies/individuals/claims creates more problems that it solves in this industry.